One thing is for certain: I'm no tax expert so I have three (3) different IRS Special Collections Unit revenue officers on my legal mailing list for over ten years and I just call them with questions (and they occasionally call me, too).All I know is that debts to the United States Treasury trump all other estate creditors, regardless of state law.

Short term insurance for vacant property is their speciality.

Many of the more aggressive banks will loan on this product too though.I consider sourcing money pretty much the highest value activity in running a real estate business.

I also believe it would take longer to sell than a similar product in the middle of the community so that would increase your costs even more.

Pricing varies for the product and labor throughout the country.

In a depression the GDP falls, it is the slowing of the consumption function or products and services being consumed less than an economy in balance.

Probably the least productive activity is having to weed out the pretenders from the real players.I typically do this with having anyone I work with show bank statements and to verify that when they say they have 400,000, 1 million, or whatever to work with that they actually do in fact have that.You would not believe the number of people out there that pretend to be working with capital or overpromise themselves.

You need a special purchase form if there is an active NOD.

(Heck, throw in marketing and management courses and you've got the functional parts of most business administration degrees.)It always drives me nuts when I see people spend thousands and thousands on expensive real estate 'courses' or 'mentors' when that money could have been spent a lot more productively learning some basic business principles at a local college.

There is a property (SFH) I am looking at that has a rental property (2br apt) in the back yard sitting on top of a garage- the entire property is actually zoned as a single family dwelling, but I was told by the owner that because that rental unit/building was built a long time ago, it was grandfathered in as a legal dwelling without special permits.